My Midsummer Morning Rediscovering A Life Of Adventure

Author : Alastair Humphreys
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008331839
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Midsummer Morning: Rediscovering a Life of Adventure written by Alastair Humphreys and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Financial Times Summer Book of 2019 Seasoned adventurer Alastair Humphreys pushes himself to his very limits – busking his way across Spain with a violin he can barely play.

Author : Laurie Lee
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141397039
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning written by Laurie Lee and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and knowing only the Spanish phrase for 'Will you please give me a glass of water?', he heads for Spain. With just a blanket to sleep under and his trusty violin, he spends a year crossing Spain, from Vigo in the north to the southern coast. Only the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts an end to his extraordinary peregrinations . . . 'He writes like an angel and conveys the pride and vitality of the humblest Spanish life with unfailing sharpness, zest and humour' Sunday Times 'There's a formidable, instant charm in the writing that genuinely makes it difficult to put the book down' New Statesman 'A beautiful piece of writing' Observer

Author : Alastair Humphreys
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007548044
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes written by Alastair Humphreys and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap’ Geographical Adventure – something that’s new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an open mind, bags of enthusiasm and boundless curiosity. Recommended for viewing on a colour tablet.

Author : Beau Miles
Publisher : Brio Books Pty Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1922267317
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Backyard Adventurer written by Beau Miles and published by Brio Books Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of adventuring around the globe – running, kayaking, hitchhiking, exploring – Beau Miles came back to his block in country Victoria. Staying put for the first time in years, Beau developed a new kind of lifestyle as the Backyard Adventurer. Whether it was walking 90km to work with no provisions, building a canoe paddle out of scavenged scrap or running a disused railway line through properties, blackberry thickets and past inquiring police officers, Beau has been finding ways to satisfy his adventurous spirit close to home. This book is about conscious experimentation with adventure, making meaning and inspiration out of tins of beans, bits of rubbish and elbow grease. Beau’s Backyard exploits are funny, authentic, insightful and being copied all over the world by everyday people. YouTuber, new dad, and self-described oddball who needs to shower more, Beau is what happens when you cross Bear Grylls with Bush Tucker Man. With a PhD in Outdoor Education, a string of successful short films under his belt and a boundless passion for discovery, Beau is the real deal.

Author : Alastair Humphreys
Publisher : Eye Books (US&CA)
ISBN 13 : 1908646039
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moods of Future Joys written by Alastair Humphreys and published by Eye Books (US&CA). This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition including new color photographs and a new afterword looking back at the journeyAlastair Humphreys' around-the-world journey of 46,000 miles was an old-fashioned adventure: long, lonely, low-budget, and spontaneous. Cycling across five continents and sailing over the oceans, his ride took four years to complete, on a tiny budget of hoarded student loans. Here is the story of the first remarkable stage of the expedition. Just two weeks into the ride the September 11th attacks changed everything. All Humphreys' plans went out the window and, instead of riding towards Australia, he suddenly found himself pedaling through the Middle East and Africa and on toward Cape Town. This book recounts an epic journey that succeeded through Humphreys' trust in the kindness of strangers, at a time where the interactions of our global community are more confused and troubled than ever.

Author : Alastair Humphreys
Publisher : Alastair Humphreys
ISBN 13 : 1785633007
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ask an Adventurer written by Alastair Humphreys and published by Alastair Humphreys. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Live adventurously, be creative, make a living Adventurers cross deserts and row oceans, appearing to live the dream. Yet they also must pay the bills and carve out time to get away. Are you trying to make a career doing what you love, daring to go freelance in a creative industry, growing an audience or curious about an unconventional career? What is it like to build a life from living adventurously? Whether you are adventurous, creative or just curious, Ask an Adventurer answers your questions from behind the scenes, rather than the usual questions adventurers hear: there are no kit lists, practical expedition planning advice or daring deeds in these pages. Instead, Alastair tackles questions asked by readers on social media such as: How do you make a living? How do you make time for adventure? How do you stay motivated and focused? How do you deal with post-adventure blues? How do you deal with the dilemma of flying and travel? How has social media changed the way you tell stories? How do you become an adventurer? How much does an adventurer earn? How do you decide what you will or won’t do for money? How do you find sponsors? How do you get your work done? How can we make the world of adventure better? How do you get a book published? How do you get paid to give talks? How do you become a better speaker? How do you deal with emails? How do you start a podcast? How do you launch an email newsletter? And more...

Author : Anna McNuff
Publisher : Anna's Adventures
ISBN 13 : 9781999765842
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Shades of The USA: One Woman's 11,000-mile Cycling Adventure Through Every State of America written by Anna McNuff and published by Anna's Adventures. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disillusioned with corporate London life and with no previous experience as a long-distance cyclist, Anna decides to clamber atop a beautiful pink bicycle (named Boudica) and set out on an 11,000-mile journey on her own, through each and every state of the USA. Dodging floods, blizzards and electrical storms, she pedals side by side with mustangs of the Wild West, through towering redwood forests, past the snow-capped peaks of the Rocky Mountains and on to the volcanos of Hawaii. Along the way, she meets record-breaking grandmas, sings with Al Green at a gospel service and does her best to avoid becoming a grizzly bear's dinner. 50 Shades of the USA is a down-to-earth, heartfelt and hilarious account of an adventure through a country well-known, but far less well-understood. It is a stunning tale of self-discovery told through the eyes of a woman who couldn't help but wonder if there was more to life, and more to America too.

Author : Alastair Humphreys
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787414426
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alastair Humphreys' Great Adventurers written by Alastair Humphreys and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hand-selected by Alastair Humpreys, read about the incredible journeys undertaken by twenty of the most heroic and impressive explorers who ever lived, including Ibn Battuta (14th-century explorer); Apsley Cherry-Garrard (a member of Scott's Antarctic expedition); Michael Collins (Apollo Moon mission astronaut) and Nellie Bly (who travelled round the world in less than 80 days). A wide-spread selection of explorers from young to old, male to female and with a range of abilities, these explorers crossed land, sea and sky in the name of adventure and may just inspire readers aged 7+ to do the same. Alastair Humphreys was named National Geographic Adventurer of the Year in 2012 for his work on the concept of microadventures.

Author : Sally Mott Freeman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501104144
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jersey Brothers written by Sally Mott Freeman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "They are three brothers, all navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of World War II's most crucial moments. Bill is tapped by Franklin D. Roosevelt to run the first Map Room in Washington. Benny is the gunnery and antiaircraft officer on the USS Enterprise, one of the only ships to escape Pearl Harbor and, by the end of 1942, the last aircraft carrier left in the Pacific to defend against the Japanese. Barton, the youngest, gets a plum commission in the Navy Supply Corps because his mother wants him out of harm's way. But this protection plan backfires when Barton is sent to the Philippines and listed as missing-in-action after a Japanese attack. Now it is up to Bill and Benny to rescue him. Based on ten years of research drawn from archives around the world, interviews with fellow shipmates and POWs, and letters half-forgotten in basements, The Jersey Brothers whisks readers from America's front porches to Roosevelt's White House, from Pearl Harbor to Midway and Bataan, and from the Pacific battlefronts to the stately home of a fierce New Jersey mother. At its heart The Jersey Brothers is a family story, written by one of its own in intimate, novelistic detail. It is a remarkable tale of agony and triumph; of an ordinary young man who shows extraordinary courage as the enemy does everything short of killing him; and of brotherly love tested under the tortures of war."--Jacket.

Author : Ronald Carter
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415243179
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge History of Literature in English written by Ronald Carter and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.